| Many Java developers are now looking at Ruby, and the Ruby
on Rails web framework. If you are one of them, this book is
your guide. Written by experienced developers who love both
Java and Ruby, this book will show you, via detailed
comparisons and commentary, how to translate your
hard-earned Java knowledge and skills into the world of Ruby
and Rails.
If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at
the very beginning! You already have deep experience with
the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this
background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a
lot different from Java, and some of those differences
support powerful abstractions that Java lacks. We'll be
your guides to this new, but not strange, territory.
In each chapter, we build a series of parallel examples to
demonstrate some facet of web development. Because the Rails
examples sit next to Java examples, you can start this book
in the middle, or anywhere else you want. You can use the
Java version of the code, plus the analysis, to quickly grok
what the Rails version is doing. We have carefully
cross-referenced and indexed the book to facilitate jumping
around as you need to.
Thanks to your background in Java, this one short book can
cover a half-dozen books' worth of ideas:
Programming Ruby
Building MVC (Model/View/Controller) Applications
Unit and Functional Testing
Security
Project Automation
Configuration
Web Services
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